Ao3 Hermitcraft Recommendations

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All works are completed (at the time of review) unless noted otherwise. Some summaries have been moderately curated.

"Only One"

Author: theteaandbiscuits
Rating: Not Rated
Words: 18,682
Chapters: 8
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/24879115/chapters/60193543
Summary: When Mumbo's mayoral campaign seems to be failing, Grian does the sensible thing and confronts their all knowing AI on the issue. What he doesn't expect is for the AI Grumbot to gain sentience and crush anything in it's way, all to accomplish it's one and only goal: get Mumbo Jumbo on the Diamond throne.
Grian finds himself caught in the sticky web that is manipulation and murder, knowing that struggling will only get him caught in the webs deeper.
Will he be able to confront his friends? Or is the hardcore server that is Hermitcraft doomed?

"Weaving My Wings from Many-Coloured Threads"

Author: SugarsweetRomantic
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Words: 1,103
Chapters: 1
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29403222
Summary: False is debating something big. She talks to her friends about it, and makes a decision.

"The Entropy of Stardust"

Author: SugarsweetRomantic
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Words: 12,708
Chapters: 16
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/24855175/chapters/60127909
Summary:What if Cub hadn't shown up to show Wels the portal to Season 7? What if instead, Wels had been stuck in Season 6? What if False is the one to realise this? What if...?

When False secretly goes on an expedition to a previous season to rescue Wels before the server self-destructs, some strange things start to happen to her and the Season 6 server. In the meantime, all of this sounds extremely familiar to a certain Creeper hybrid and Zombie, as well as their trusted Admin. While False attempts to rescue Wels, Doc, Xisuma and Cleo must do everything in their power to save all of them from a much darker fate.

"The Dark Side of the Moon"

Author: SugarsweetRomantic
Rating: Mature
Words: 13,400
Chapters: 1
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/27173194
Summary: When something unexpected changes the course of the Lifeboat space station, Doctor Cleo Morana must scramble to figure out what happened, where the rest of her crew is, and how to solve the problem at hand -- before the oxygen runs out.

In the meantime, the station's AI "J.O.E." starts receiving messages from an unknown entity...and responding to it.

"Constellations"

Author: SugarsweetRomantic
Rating: Mature
Words: 4,177
Chapters: 8
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30867944/chapters/76213934
Summary: "But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me." - Madeline Miller, Circe.

Whatever Cleo had expected to happen when she was called into City Hall, this definitely wasn't anywhere on her list.

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Cleo gets custody of Grumbot and Jrumbot, and everyone does some communicating and talking and healing for a change.

"The Road to Hell (Is Paved with Good Intentions)"

Author:Random_Reviewer
Rating: Mature
Words: 14,932 (Holy moly that is some graphic torture)
Chapters: 7
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34440724/chapters/85712338
Summary: "Season 8 was well underway, and the server's first conflict is bubbling just under the surface. But BDoubleO can't worry about currency exchanges and tension right now because he has an Etho to find so they can work on the Horse Course together. However when Xisuma calls a surprise server meeting on behalf of EvilXisuma, BDubs gets his answers about where Etho's been in the worst way possible."